The excerpt of the poem written by Alfred Noyes contain: A. characters, C. theme, and D. setting. <u>The first literary element:</u> characters, is present with the description of the <em>highwayman</em>, a man that enter an old inn wearing a french hat, lace at his chin, a coat, high boots and a pistol. There's another character presented in the excerpt, the landlord's daughter, a girl with black eyes and black long hair. Thus, the characters are the people presented on the poem. <u>The second literary element is the</u> theme: an unknown man enters and old inn and meets the owner's daughter, thus the theme is what the poem is talking about. <u>Finally </u>we have the setting: the description of the highway, the sky, the inn, all the description of the places, what surrounds the characters make up the setting of the poem.
